Daily Inspiration: Finding Heaven at Night

This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard and InterFaith Works of CNY.

Ellyn Lentz

The sky at night is vast and mysterious. On a clear night, especially away from city lights, we can see stars that are so far away, and often, the milky river streaming across the sky called the Milky Way. Sometimes we can see Jupiter, Mars, and Venus. We can follow the phases of the moon caused by the shadow of the earth. Can we see all the way to heaven? Is there a stairway? Is heaven beyond anything we could ever see? Or is heaven where we are, here and now?

Ellyn Lentz, a transplant donor coordinator, is part of the Central New York Unitarian Universalists Pagans. She is a volunteer with the Community Wide Dialogue to End Racism, a program of InterFaith Works of CNY.